Chen Xiaohui may have only heard that anything that money can handle is not a big deal. Forget that money and silk touch people's hearts.
Ye Fan sighed: "What happens after I give you the money now?"
Chen Xiaohui said without thinking: "Let's do this first."
Ye Fan wanted to scratch her head: "You have just arrived here this year. Chen Kuanren and Zhao Ruping can understand that they will give you twenty yuan for the New Year. Next year during the Dragon Boat Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhao Ruping will ask you to go back for the festival. You said you are not free. Shouldn't you have it?" Represented? ”
Chen Xiaohui: “I won’t give too much to make them think I am stupid and have too much money.”
Ye Fanxin said you are not stupid yet.
Ye Fan took a deep breath and asked again: "You eat and live at home, right? You're not married. You only have ten yuan left over from fifteen yuan a month. Do you believe Zhao Ruping that you have no money?"
Chen Xiaohui: "But I have to keep some for myself."
Ye Fan nodded: "Then let me ask you, you don't need the money. How do you answer?"
"Why is it no longer needed?" Chen Xiaohui frowned.
Ye Fan: "Buying clothes, shoes, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and Coke? With Zhao Ruping's temperament, will he say that you don't know how to live? Will he think that you are a bad student? Then he will come to you in the car."
"I——" Chen Xiaohui wanted to say that they were not free. The couple are both retired, and even if they have granddaughters and grandsons to take care of, Chen Kuanren can still take care of them for two days. Take the express from Shanghai to the capital. It will leave today and arrive tomorrow.
With Ye Fan's temper, he angered those two old guys and took the opportunity to break up with them. But this is Chen Xiaohui's business, and she won't say who dares to make the decision for her. Ye Fan pondered for a moment: "If you want to honor them, just buy them clothes and shoes. You can't give them any money."
Chen Xiaohui frowned: "Good clothes and shoes are not cheap either."
Ye Fan was speechless: "...What can you buy if you don't have money? Zhao Ruping wants to ask for money, so she bought clothes. Zhao Ruping wants to ask someone how much the clothes cost. Just say that your parents are biased and don't give you a piece of clothing. You spend money on food and clothing, why not go back to Shanghai.”
Chen Xiaohui's eyes widened, what was she talking about.
Ye Fan's patience ran out and he couldn't help frowning: "Listen to me, you have no job in Shanghai, right? Zhao Ruping and Chen Kuanren have to spend money to buy a bowl of rice soup for a meal? They will definitely not be happy for you to go back. Who will buy them clothes when you go back? ?”
Chen Xiaohui suddenly woke up as if from a dream, could this still be possible?
Ye Fan: "Chen Kuanren and Zhao Ruping want you to have trouble with your parents, but you just say Ye Fan is awesome, but you don't dare. Besides, the temporary workers' wages are low and the work is boring. Ask them to find you someone with a higher salary, and you go back to Shanghai." ”
"But what will they think of you?" Chen Xiaohui was very confused. Didn't Ye Fan know that once she said this, Chen Kuanren and Zhao Ruping would have to curse her every day?
Ye Fan nodded: "So what? Will they stop scolding me now? Do they dare to yell in front of me? I was born by them. I can't hear them scolding me, but they can hear it. Are they scolding me or scolding me? Themselves? I'm a bastard, what are they?"
Chen Xiaohui wanted to say something, but found that she was speechless.
Ye Fan: "Are you afraid that they will come to you? They are also afraid that you will go back at this time. In ten or twenty years, they will need someone to wait at their bedside. If you don't go back, they will have to rush you with three telegrams a day. Ten Aren’t you going to get married and have children in twenty years? Then you’ll have money to raise children. Zixiao can't live without people, what can they do to you?" He paused and added, "If you dare to go to your house to make trouble, your parents-in-law are easy to bully? Unless you stop them, they won't follow you for your sake. They both know each other well, but they only know each other.”
The more Chen Xiaohui thought about it, the more it made sense, but how did she know how to use her husband's family to deal with her mother's family: "You, the Ye family and the Geng family seem to be more powerful, but your mother-in-law is more powerful, right?"
Ye Fan interrupted: "No, my mother-in-law is just a talker. My father-in-law has a higher salary than Dabao's father. She has a pension, and Xiaoqin occasionally gives her a few dollars. She is richer than us. She takes Dabao Erbao or Geng Zhiye with her. My nieces and nephews never ask for prices when they go to Friendship Store.”
"Then how do you know so much?"
Ye Fanxin said that I was twenty-five, not fifteen, and even more wanted to say that I was not you: "It's hard to satisfy your desires! Are you a high school graduate?"
Chen Xiaohui’s face turned ugly: “You, you——”
"My words are unpleasant." Ye Fan interrupted, "If Zhao Ruping writes a letter asking you how you are doing here, just say so. Don't worry about it reaching your parents' ears. Even if Zhao Ruping swore at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, no one would believe her. . Because of her bad conduct!”
Chen Xiaohui: "What if she hits the wall and hangs herself?"
"She dares?" Ye Fan sneered, "It's not that I look down on her, she doesn't even dare if Chen Kuanren dares. Chen Kuanren dares to die not because he has the guts, but because he has no brains and acts impulsively." The more he talks, the less he understands, "This What are you afraid of?”
Chen Xiaohui wants to say, I am not you. But she was in the Ye family, so why couldn't she be like Ye Fan. Chen Xiaohui was irritated and slapped herself on the head.
"What are you doing?!"
The exclamation sounded, and Chen Xiaohui was startled. She turned around and saw that the person coming was Geng Zhiqin. She breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Why aren't you in front?"
Geng Zhiqin pulled Ye Fan back: "Why are you so crazy in broad daylight?"
Chen Xiaohui quickly explained: "No, I, I am angry with myself."
Geng Zhiqin looked at Ye Fan, is it true?
Ye Fan nodded, it should be.
Geng Zhiqin couldn't understand: "You can't hit yourself on the head when you are angry. You are good or bad. My sister-in-law can't explain it even though her mouth is full of words."
Chen Xiaohui said subconsciously: "No - forget it, leave me alone, let me be alone."
Geng Zhiqin pulled Ye Fan and left, fearing that she would harm herself again. People who didn't know thought that her sister-in-law forced her to do it: "If you don't mind, tell me and we can help you figure out a solution? Three cobblers are like Zhuge Liang."
Ye Fan hit the little girl on the head.
Geng Zhiqin said hurriedly: "I am a cobbler, and you are Zhuge Liang."
Ye Fan: "Chen Xiaohui, remember you've only been here for half a year, you haven't become a full-time employee yet, and you have no money. One person has one set of clothes. The fabric doesn't have to be too good, just what ordinary workers wear."
When Chen Xiaohui saw that she was leaving, she quickly asked: "Where are the shoes?"
Ye Fan wanted to roll his eyes again and needed her to say a few times: "You have no money!"
Chen Xiaohui nodded subconsciously.
When Geng Zhiqin arrived at the front store, he couldn't help but ask: "Where's her money? Although she hasn't become a regular employee yet, how many months have we been——"
Ye Fan: "She wanted to give Shen Cheng money and asked me how much. I told her to pretend she had no money."
Geng Zhiqin blurted out: "Is she really sick?"
Ye Fan wanted to laugh: "A little bit, it looks like there is hope."
Geng Zhiqin couldn't help but turn around. Chen Xiaohui had changed from standing to squatting, holding her knees with her hands, like a pitiful little person whom no one wanted: "Poor people must be hateful."
Ye Fan: "Chen Kuanren and Zhao Ruping did evil. By the way, is the business good?"
Geng Zhiqin nodded: "I said this is the last car before the year, and the uncles and aunts who are waiting for the special offer don't dare to wait any longer. Sister-in-law, is this the last car?"
Ye Fan: "There is another car." When he saw the people buying things, he stopped, "Goods from the Xicheng and Dongcheng Supply and Marketing Cooperatives are not shipped here."
Geng Zhiqin: "Two families and one car?"
Ye Fan nodded: "There are only so many on the island."
After the words fell, the customer beside Ye Fan didn't bother to pick and choose, just grabbed a handful of candies, paid for them and walked out.
Ye Fan chuckled upon seeing this.
Geng Zhiqin was surprised: "What are you laughing at, sister-in-law?"
Ye Fan shook his head: "It's nothing. I barely slept at night. You drove me back."
Geng Zhiqin turned to look at her expression. Her sister-in-law was not tanned, but her face was sallow after not sleeping all night: "Why didn't you tell me earlier? Come on, get in the car. By the way, put on your scarf and hat."
Ye Fan went to bed when he got home and stayed up until Chen Xiaohui got off work in the evening. Ye Fanxingxing went out, Chen Xiaohui was washing vegetables in the courtyard, and Tao Chunlan was rolling noodles in the kitchen: "Where are the Dabao and the second treasure?"
Tao Chunlan couldn't help but complain: "Your mother-in-law took her away."
Ye Fan raised his eyebrows: "If she wants to pick you up, just ask her to pick you up?"
Chen Xiaohui couldn't help but look towards the kitchen, because she wanted to ask the same question just now.
Tao Chunlan: "She said that your father-in-law wanted to have a second child. It would be fine if the second child did not go back. She sent your father-in-law here. What did she mean? Your father-in-law is not in good health. If he gets sick again, how will others see me? I think she did it on purpose. ”
Chen Xiaohui nodded, Yu Wentao did it on purpose.
Ye Fan smiled: "You didn't bring any clothes or shoes?"
Tao Chunlan was surprised: "Have you forgotten? I asked you where the clothes of Dabao and Erbao were, and you said they were in the bag."
Ye Fan had no impression at all: "Maybe I'm too sleepy."
Tao Chunlan: "I will see you off when I go back."
Ye Fan hurriedly refused: "What will others think of me when you are sick? You want to take care of the child so much. You can take care of the child for these half a month, and I will be quiet and peaceful."
Tao Chunlan was unhappy to be rejected again: "I will go to Geng's house tomorrow!"
Ye Fan nodded: "You can go. You can also stay here. Geng Zhiye and I's room is empty, just in time -"
Tao Chunlan interrupted: "Go aside! Don't bother me here!"
Chen Xiaohui was so frightened that the vegetables she just picked up fell into the basin. She hurriedly looked at Ye Fan. Ye Fan turned around and left, calm and calm as if it had nothing to do with him. Chen Xiaohui wants to ask if you are not angry. Ye Fan drifted away from her eyes and went to the main room to get a thermos bottle, pour water to wash his face and brush his teeth.
Chen Xiaohui wondered why she was so generous.
Even if she doesn't recognize Chen Kuanren and Zhao Ruping, she still knows that she is not the child of Tao Chunlan. Why don't you care at all?
Because Ye Fan was no longer Ye Fan, it was Tao Chunlan who arranged the marriage arrangements for her, took care of the children and her, and it was Ye's father who provided the money. No matter what happens, there are only one pair of parents in Ye Fan's heart.
Unless the Ye family doesn't want her.
Tao Chunlan walked towards Chen Xiaohui: "Is the food ready?"
Chen Xiaohui looked back: "Okay, okay."
Tao Chunlan was curious: "What are you looking at?" There was no one in the main room.
Chen Xiaohui felt guilty for no apparent reason, so she said: "The second baby is so young and won't make trouble?"
Tao Chunlan was surprised: "This? No way. Erbao knows Fanfan is here. If you miss her, you can see Fanfan when you come here."
As expected of Ye Fan's daughter, she is as big-hearted as she is at such a young age. Chen Xiaohui said: "Er Bao is so good."
Tao Chunlan nodded: "Go back to the house and wait."
Chen Xiaohui followed her to the kitchen to get three sets of bowls and chopsticks, while Tao Chunlan held the pot.
Ye Fan put the towels on the washbasin: "Mom, sister-in-law won't be back at night, right?"
Li Mingyue's parents' home is close to her workplace. She usually goes back to her parents' home if she doesn't want to live in her workplace. If the weather is good and it's Sunday, she will come back. A few days ago, I heard that Ye Fan had come back recently. Li Mingyue wanted to have his first and second child back at the weekend. It was freezing cold, and Tao Chunlan was worried that she would be freezing while riding her bicycle, so she asked her to come back during the New Year.
Tao Chunlan knew why Ye Fan asked: "Lock the door. I'll go to Geng's house tomorrow."
Ye Fan was helpless: "Go, no one is stopping you from going. Do you want me to accompany you?"
Tao Chunlan served her a bowl of noodles: "You don't want to go. If you go, you will have to stay."
Ye Fan was funny: "Geng Zhiye is my husband——"
Chen Xiaohui couldn't help but interrupt: "Mom is right!"
Tao Chunlan smiled proudly: "Did you hear that? Listen to Xiaohui."
Ye Fanxin said that Chen Xiaohui is different from you. She thinks Geng Zhiye has someone in his heart and will divorce me sooner or later.
Ye Fan had never asked Geng Zhiye about this matter, but after careful observation, Geng Zhiye definitely had no one in his heart. Besides, with Geng Zhiye's rather restless temperament, it would be impossible for him to marry such a person. Unless his father is running out of time and forces him to get married.
But when she and Geng Zhiye went on a blind date, Geng Zhiye was twenty-six years old, which was considered a late marriage among soldiers. Geng's father just couldn't work hard, he was still far away from the Palace of Hell.
Chen Xiaohui also seems to be stubborn, and even ten cows can't get rid of what she believes in. It would be useless to explain to her. What's more, you know how well you live your life, and there's no need to explain it to others. Ye Fan smiled and said, "I listen to you."
Tao Chunlan smiled. But when she turned her face and saw Chen Xiaohui, her smile froze.
The next morning, Chen Xiaohui went out to work, and Tao Chunlan dragged Ye Fan to open the two doors to the south: "Look, Fanfan, our house has become a scrap recycling station."
When Ye Fan walked in, a strong strange smell hit his face. No wonder the old lady jumped in anger. The cave dwellings the old lady lived in back then were cleaner than this.
Ye Fan patted her arm: "You go out first, and I'll see what's there."
Tao Chunlan complained at the door: "It's either tables and chairs or cabinets. There are also jewelry boxes. What about antiques? Even if they are all antiques, gold, silver and porcelain are not valuable. Who can sell broken furniture? Besides, look at how long that table is. The legs are so thin, what can be put there?”
Ye Fan followed the old lady's hand and looked over. It looked like a long table used by ancient people to practice calligraphy. It could hold the Four Treasures of the Study. But she couldn't tell for sure. She just saw it when she lived in a Guofeng B&B in her previous life: "It's just for show."
Tao Chunlan complained: "I can't even eat enough. Who is in the mood to watch this?"
Ye Fan: "Is the library still open?"
Tao Chunlan shook her head: "I don't know. What are you doing?"
Ye Fan: "Then I'll go to the flea market and see if there are any books introducing these furniture. Even if you throw it away, split it up and burn it, she still has to be willing. For example, if you say she was cheated, you have to provide evidence, right?"
Tao Chunlan went to push the cart: "Would you like to go first or take a shower first?"
Ye Fan: "Let's go first. I'll wash up in the afternoon."
The flea market was quite far from Ye's house, and Ye Fan was so exhausted that he was sweating before arriving. The flea market looks dilapidated and full of rags inside. Some things are piled in the yard, and some things are piled in the house. Only one person looks after it. She was sorting out the goods when Ye Fan went in. She glanced at Ye Fan and said, "You can choose what you want."
Ye Fan: "Are you the only one?"
The lesbian nodded: "The others are out."
Ye Fan: "I'm looking for some books. How to sell them?"
Lesbian: "On weight."
Ye Fan pointed to the things inside and outside the house: "Weigh them all by kilograms?" The lesbian nodded.
Ye Fan finally understood why Chen Xiaohui was getting things home every day. Even if they were fake, they would not hurt if they chopped them for firewood.
After rummaging through the entire flea market, Ye Fan couldn't find any books specifically introducing ancient furniture. Ye Fan could only choose some books that looked a little older, hoping that they mentioned the characteristics of ancient furniture, or that there was furniture in the pictures.
"Three cents." The female comrade weighed it and handed it to Ye Fan.
Ye Fan was surprised: "But I -" I didn't dare to bring too much money, but unfortunately the smallest face value was ten cents.
The middle-aged lesbian impatiently went into the house to find change: "How many more things can you pick?" Look at what Ye Fan is wearing, military green pants and jacket, a red scarf around his neck, and a thick cotton hat. His hands don't look dry. Living a heavy life, "You young people don't like painting, but also poetry. Over there, those boxes are full of them."
Ye Fan: "Is there anything else in the box?"
The lesbian nodded: "What other ornaments are there? I collected them a few days ago. It seems that my family is waiting for the money. I don't want to buy them. If the boss finds out, he will scold us for collecting things randomly. If you want it, I will give you the original price."
Ye Fanxin said that he would never let me meet a real antique.
Ye Fan opened a few boxes against the wall under the eaves and said they were incense burners, not incense burners, nor did they look like ancient bottles. Ye Fan picked one and weighed it, it looked like iron. The old lady was in a hurry to buy this thing.
Ye Fan looked at the middle-aged lesbian, who nodded repeatedly with an eager look on her face. The lesbians looked uneducated. I don’t know how many connections they had to rely on to get this job. Ye Fan sighed: "Sister, help me find a bag."
The lesbian responded happily and went back to the house to find the sack.
Ye Fan's pupils were shaking, and the old lady was about to explode.
"No, it doesn't have to be this big."
The lesbian pushed away Ye Fan's hand: "It's not worth anything. You can light briquettes after reading these." As she spoke, she stuffed a few scrolls into the bag, which looked like paintings. Ye Fan saw that her fingers were cracked and there were frostbite on the back of her hands. He turned away and said helplessly: "Let it go, let it go."
When the lesbian saw her looking at something else, she took the opportunity to stuff a handful of scattered things into it that were difficult to recycle and reprocess and could only be used as firewood. Finally put some bundles of books. Before Ye Fan could read the books clearly, the lesbian tied the bag.
The lesbian put it on the scale: "Comrade, you have copper here, can I give it to you at the price of iron?"
Ye Fan nodded: "Okay."
The lesbian saw clearly how many pounds it was and couldn't help but smile: "Five six dollars, I'll give you five five dollars."
Ye Fan really wanted to tell her that I was an accountant. Ye Fan, the former accountant of Haidian Supply and Marketing Cooperative, had to deal with scales every day, but he obviously didn't get five yuan or four. Ye Fan gave her five dollars and a half: "Tie it up for me."
"Okay." The lesbian had already prepared the rope.
Ye Fanxin said that he treated me as a fat sheep.
I hope the old lady goes to find Dabao and Erbao.
Ye Fan arrived at the door of his house and was so exhausted that he was sweating profusely and his legs and feet were weak. When he saw that the door was locked, he was no longer tired. After taking out the key and opening the door, Ye Fan pushed the things in and took out the contents of the sack.
Seeing the scattered things inside, Ye Fan immediately wanted to curse. This lesbian was really bad. She would accept anything if someone said she was in trouble. Call her a good person and catch yourself in a trap.
Ye Fan picked out the books and arranged the other things in categories. It may be valuable in the future, but now it can easily become a disaster. Ye Fan hesitated for a moment and looked south to see if he could stuff it into Chen Xiaohui's furniture.
Ye Fan shook his head, forget it, he finally listened to her advice and stopped giving Zhao Ruping money and bought clothes instead. For her to discover what she had done, she would have to think wildly.
Ye Fan walked towards the utility room next to the kitchen. There was a camphor wood box containing her middle school and primary school textbooks, as well as toys from her childhood. People who broke the four olds came to her house before to make sure that there were no old things in her house, so they probably wouldn't check again.
Ye Fan took out the things and put the things she bought in. There were still the textbooks and toys from her childhood on top.
The door of the utility room was closed, and there was only one sack and a few bundles of old books left in the sack. Ye Fan felt at ease.
Ye Fan felt that her mother was coming back soon. She looked through it and found that only five of the three bundles of books mentioned furniture. Ye Fan picked out these five books and put the other books under the desk in her room. Just after putting them away, the door was pushed open.
Ye Fan was flustered, as if he were a thief. After thinking that everything was put away, Ye Fan took a deep breath and calmly went out: "Mom, where are the first and second treasures?"
Tao Chunlan was so angry that she scolded: "Two white-eyed wolves. They said that my grandparents' family is good."
Chen Xiaohui pushed the car in: "No. Dabao said there are people playing at the grandparents' house. The child of Xiaoqin's second brother."
Ye Fan: "You went too?"
Tao Chunlan was very uncomfortable: "I'm used to taking the road of the supply and marketing cooperative. When I saw Xiaoqin at the door, I remembered that I didn't have to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to go to Geng's house."
Chen Xiaohui: "Xiaoqin and I arrived at Geng's house and my mother hadn't left yet. I took her back by bicycle."
Ye Fan said helplessly: "My mother-in-law wanted to take them out to show off, but you went to ask for someone before she showed off. It would be strange if she could give it to you. The eldest and second treasures couldn't stay in the house, and she and my father-in-law were trapped by them. When you are tired, you will ask Xiaoqin to send them over.”
Tao Chunlan felt unhappy after running away for nothing, and she didn't want to listen to her daughter's words, so she just went back to the house with a perfunctory answer.
Chen Xiaohui couldn't help but said: "She——"
Ye Fan interrupted: "Don't worry. I'm going to cook."
Chen Xiaohui wanted to leave her alone to sulk. Before she could say anything, Ye Fan got into the kitchen. Chen Xiaohui was angry and thought, what does it have to do with me, why do I care about this. After thinking about this, I felt comfortable and went back to the house to rest.
In winter, there are very few vegetables in the north, so Ye Fan uses a rice cooker to cook red date porridge, heats up some steamed buns with mixed noodles, uses the stove to make a dish of vinegared cabbage, and stir-fries shredded radish in lard.
Chen Xiaohui was surprised that Ye Fan's cooking was delicious. She thought that Ye Fan went to school, then went to work and gave birth to a child, and had no time to learn to cook. She was just a young lady who had no fingers in the spring water, so Tao Chunlan didn't trust her to join the army.
Ye Fan saw Chen Xiaohui looking at her: "The food doesn't suit your taste?"
Chen Xiaohui shook her head: "No. There is no water vapor in radish."
Ye Fan: "I didn't release the water. Mom, is it too hard?"
Tao Chunlan smelled the aroma of vinegared cabbage and disappeared, but she still felt unhappy: "I can eat it, but your father-in-law can't."
Ye Fan clicked his tongue: "Why bring it up again? The day after tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, I will pick them up to celebrate the New Year, okay?"
Tao Chunlan: "You mean the Spring Festival will be at your father-in-law's house?"
Ye Fan: "Isn't this the case in previous years? I come here on the first day of the new year and live there until the fifth day of the new year?"
Tao Chunlan was reluctantly satisfied: "I'll go back on the 28th."
Ye Fanxin asked why you didn't ask me to go back on New Year's Eve: "It's up to you. Let's eat."
After the meal, Ye Fan packed up and went to take a shower, not wanting to hear her mother curse her parents-in-law.
After Ye Fan left, Tao Chunlan remembered that she only cared about being angry with the Geng family and almost forgot about the real thing. When Ye Fan came back, Tao Chunlan pointed to the house in the south and asked Ye Fan to take some time to persuade Chen Xiaohui not to buy it again. When she went shopping for groceries in the morning, her neighbors teased her about whether Xiaohui would go to the thrift store again tomorrow, Sunday.
Ye Fan nodded: "I'll tell you tomorrow."
The next morning, Tao Chunlan randomly found a reason to go to her neighbor's house. Ye Fan took a broom to sweep the floor. When he saw Chen Xiaohui going south, Ye Fan pretended to be curious and followed her: "This room is also dirty - why are there so many things?"
Chen Xiaohui turned around and smiled very proudly, although she seemed to have tried her best to control it.
Ye Fan: "Did you buy it?"
Chen Xiaohui nodded, knowing that there was a revolution going on outside these days, so she couldn't let anyone hear her, so she whispered: "They are all Ming Dynasty furniture and antiques."
Ye Fan wanted to find out why she wanted to buy furniture: "Is someone selling antiques to you?"
"We need money urgently. No one is willing to spend money to buy these. It's very cheap now." Chen Xiaohui pointed to the long table, the one Ye Fan said was displayed: "Five kilograms of national food stamps."
No money was spent? Ye Fan didn't know what to say for a moment: "Aren't you afraid that your neighbors will say you are nostalgic?"
Chen Xiaohui didn't think much about it, thinking that there were no words on the furniture and no paintings of sex, so it would be fine if the Revolutionary Committee saw it: "I - what should I do? Throw it away?" She couldn't help but feel pain in her heart.
Ye Fan: "Just say that you have been in the countryside for a long time and like these old things. Go back and pick out a few usable ones and put them in your house to confirm this."
Chen Xiaohui wanted to think about what to do if it gets worn out, but it seemed like she could only do this: "Then how long will this one be?"
Ye Fan helped her carry her to the side room: "It's just right for books and pens."
Chen Xiaohui couldn't help but said: "Why didn't I think of that?" Put the book you don't read on it, and it won't break if you don't touch it.
Ye Fan: "I took a look just now and the room in the south seems to be full. Don't buy any more. Going too far is never enough."
Chen Xiaohui also realized that she had acted too hastily: "No, no - I forgot. I made an appointment with someone to go see him next weekend, for the last time. Or if the neighbor asks, just say you like the old ones too?"
This year’s lunar calendar is the 22nd, next weekend is the 29th? Ye Fan had a bad premonition: "Are you sure it's next weekend? The next day is New Year's Eve, and it's time for the barely clothed family to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner."
What does Ye Fan mean? Chen Xiaohui wanted to ask: "He won't lie to me. I helped him."
Ye Fan: "When the road is rough, draw your sword to help?"
Chen Xiaohui's face turned red with anger: "You - I don't want to quarrel with you. You don't understand him."
But I know you, you are short-sighted! Ye Fan couldn't help but curse, and nodded slightly: "Tell me about it."
Chen Xiaohui felt that she sat upright and told people everything she wanted: "His child wanted to eat candy. I happened to see him steal the candy from the supply and marketing cooperative. I secretly reminded him to put it back and spent money. Buy some for him. He heard that I like old things, and it took him a long time to help me find one that was willing to sell them at a low price.”
Ye Fan was tired: "Is he really ashamed when I reminded him?"
Chen Xiaohui nodded: "I don't think he wants to either. They are just poor."
Ye Fan: "Shame will only make people hate you. Because you see his ugly side. When you say you are grateful, you are not grateful for buying candy, but grateful that you did not send him in. Forget it, I will go with you then. .”
Chen Xiaohui blurted out: "No need."
Ye Fan didn't talk nonsense to her and went back to the house to study on antiques.
Chen Xiaohui thought Ye Fan agreed.
The next day, as soon as Chen Xiaohui left, Ye Fan asked her mother to move out Chen Xiaohui's old furniture. Tao Chunlan was very anxious: "Fanfan, you can't throw it away."
Ye Fan was speechless: "Who threw it away? Take it out and let me see how many things there are. You can wipe it with a dry cloth to avoid a strange smell when you open the door. How did she get it here?"
Tao Chunlan: "She asked someone to deliver the big ones. She brought the small ones back by bicycle."
Ye Fan was speechless, that's great! She also didn’t know who the educated youths who went to the countryside with her were, turning a good simple student into a heartless person.
"You go get the broom and rag, and I'll take out the small items and pack them up before eleven o'clock. I'll pick up the first and second treasures."
When Tao Chunlan heard that Dabao and Erbao were coming back, she became very motivated. The couple packed up the things in several rooms at half past ten. Ye Fan went in and took a closer look, roughly taking note of all the furniture styles, then changed his clothes and packed them up before going to his in-laws' house.
Geng Zhiye's father wanted to keep Ye Fan for dinner, but Ye Fan said he would come over at the 28th, so her father-in-law relented.
On the afternoon of the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, Ye Fan returned to his parents-in-law's house with his two children. Chen Xiaohui increasingly believed that Ye Fan believed that she had seen the right person. The next morning, Chen Xiaohui had just finished eating when Ye Fan came in pushing his bicycle. Chen Xiaohui was stunned.
Ye Fan knew it and asked: "Aren't you going?"
Chen Xiaohui didn't dare to tell the truth. She saw that Tao Chunlan didn't agree with her collecting old furniture and found any reason to leave the house. On the way, she chatted with Ye Fan, saying that she listened to Ye Fan and sent the two sets of clothes she bought for Chen Kuanren and Zhao Ruping. It costs less than fifteen yuan plus shipping, and it should arrive today.
Ye Fan nodded, but didn't say, "Look, it's more cost-effective than paying you."
Chen Xiaohui talked about something else. She bought meat at home and made braised pork on the first day of the new year.
Ye Fan asked: "Is it almost there?"
Chen Xiaohui turned into the alley, passed two houses, stopped and shouted into the courtyard: "Brother Ren, are you at home?"
The door opened and Ye Fan looked inside. It was a large courtyard. No wonder.
Then a gay man came out, about the same height as Chen Xiaohui, with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks. Ye Fan's brows moved, and the gay man spoke first: "Accountant Chen, what is this?"
Ye Fan: "Xiaohui's neighbor. I'm curious, come with her to have a look."
The middle-aged man named Ren smiled and said: "What do you call a comrade?"
Ye Fan said first: "The surname is Geng."
Chen Xiaohui couldn't help but frown when she heard "Geng". Ye Fan couldn't get her to speak and asked again: "Are you in the courtyard?"
Comrade Ren was very curious when he saw her and pointed in front: "This house. I will take you there."
Chen Xiaohui approached Ye Fan: "You still don't believe it?"
Ye Fan smiled and said: "Believe it or not, you will know it in a while."
Three minutes later, the three of them walked into the courtyard, which was slightly smaller than Ye's house. The male owner of the courtyard looked to be in his early forties. He was holding a cigarette and introducing his things: "They are all left by the elders. If you don't wait for the money, I can't sell them to you, no matter whether you are Xiao Ren or any of your relatives." After that, he opened the door of the wing. .
Comrade Ren pointed to the furniture in the room: "Accountant Chen, look, this square table and this altar table are all made of mahogany. Did I lie to you? They are all from the Ming Dynasty."
Chen Xiaohui nodded, looked at Ye Fan, and couldn't help but show pride, I didn't lie to you.
Ye Fan walked over and touched the altar table: "This paste seems to be an old thing. But it's not from the Ming Dynasty."
The smile on Comrade Ren's face froze, and then he said with a smile: "These are all parallel imports. Comrade, only Ming Dynasty furniture is like this."
Ye Fan smiled and said: "Who said that parallel imports can only be Ming Dynasty furniture?" He looked at the owner of the furniture and said, "At first glance, it does look like Ming style. Unfortunately, it is from the Qing Dynasty or after Yongzheng. Furniture from the Kangxi Dynasty is similar to the Ming Dynasty furniture. It’s almost the same, the style is simple.” Pointing to the carvings around the altar table: “Ming style furniture is not so luxurious and complicated, it is most likely from the Qianlong period. It looks like it was from Cixi's time." At this point, he looked at Ren, "Besides, this short square table has four thick legs and a heavy table top. It was also available in the Ming Dynasty, but it's a pity that it has carvings on all four sides. Hui Ziwen? You two can also say that I am ignorant, but we don’t have to go.”
The owner of the furniture subconsciously shouted: "Accountant Chen, no, Accountant Chen, you said you wanted me to see it. This man——"
Ye Fan looked at the person named Ren: "You met Xiaohui at the supply and marketing cooperative? Then you should know that there was an accountant before the supply and marketing cooperative, right?"
The gay man named Ren was speechless: "You, you, you are Ye Fan? Didn't you leave?"
Ye Fan nodded: "I'm Ye Fan, I'm back again." He said to the owner of the furniture, "We don't have to buy it. I'll ask a history professor and archeology expert to come over tomorrow and take a look at it together. It's really Ming Dynasty furniture. I’ll give you whatever you want! If not, let’s see you at the police station for fraud!”
(End of chapter)